Meeting 20100304

• Ed, brought home-made CNC
• Steve brought in small PC for driving it.
• 1915 Initial introductions
• 1916 Question what does the $100 get you
  • goes to the initial startup, how much is required for it
  • membership fee is different
• budget models
• monthly goal
• 6 members so far

- Makerspace items

• WHO IS AT THIS MEETING, TAKE ROLL
  • sent around a sheet for people to put in their name and how the Makerspace knows them
• create maker space member recruitment flyer(s) for placement around town
• plan presentations for upcoming meetings
• speak to local groups with potential members also print and put up flyers in shops you frequent
• find potential spaces - List of Space Requirements
• 1928
• roundtable group introduction
  • while the intros are going around, Ed is setting up the PC to the CNC
• 1938
• 1943 introductions complete
• 1945 CNC machine
  • problems w/ the PC, it can't boot from CD.
  • 1948 borrowing someone's IBM Thinkpad w/ a parallel port to handle it
• 1950 Dale Wheat's CNC platform

• 1958 Back to Ed's CNC/etcher/engraver
  • 2001 Lights!
  • 2003 Parallel port on laptop just isn't working.
  • 2014 Attempting to get laptop working, and discussing vertical unit on CNC
  • 2019 Choosing the last remaining parallel port option in the BIOS

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